It's not just that. I think camera native formats also store additional metadata, like which focus zone was selected when auto-focusing the shot. It's not entirely pointless. On the other hand, it's also a win-win for software vendors who get to lock camera support behind upgrade costs.

Why not go with calories then? 3000 kCal is something your regular American could relate with on a daily basis.

There's more and more people and companies on BSky every day. I think I migrated 70% of my follows now. And because there's no algorithmic content or ads yet, I actually get to see updates from accounts I follow. Sure, maybe Elon and other celebs didn't switch yet, and maybe if I might get into actual trouble for posting terrible things, but so far the experience is pretty great. No constant crypto spam and sex bots.

To clarify, my point was that it might be double-counting coming from China. It corrects itself, so I think that's admittance of numbers not being valid, rather than that we're missing that segment normally.

Steam does a poor job of counting installations in Chinese internet cafes. Once in a while we have a huge bump in the number of Simplified Chinese language and Windows 7, 10 usage. News websites make a big fuss about it and the big change quietly vanished in a week or two when numbers are massaged back into shape.

I'm ok with rich people having expensive toys, but this one is extremely bad for the environment. Can't we just send them to check on Titanic instead? Explosive results are roughly equivalent.

Even Mozart preferred to get paid. The difference is the payment was in advance of the work being produced. You'll have to narrow down this historical golden age of music where the means of mechanically replicating musical performances existed, but copyright didn't.

Sometimes it works well as a glorified auto complete, which is good. But if I'm going to deliver real work, I need to be sure I fully understand what it's doing. Often it's somehow just easier to go through every step of the process yourself than to work out what someone else was doing to reach a similar goal.

Drop artists and QA so that a middle manager could spit out more promotional material without even caring to check how many fingers it drew and dumping it on paying audience... Just stinks of a crappy product and shameful for a big company to do. Quality assets were kind of a tell-tale sign that perhaps time and care were taken to get other areas well designed and polished. Now it's a losing battle to screen out the junk and a time sink to work out the rest of the game might be rushed incoherent AI drivel.

It's not. But there's a big distribution and ownership problem that makes it compelling. There is also a big assumption that every pirated copy would have been a sale and competes in the same playing field. Generative AI on the other hand is literally marketed as a replacement for the original product on which it was trained.

Just because piracy exists, doesn't mean we should all just give up and abandon all attempts at copyright protection. Producing quality content requires a lot of investment and that won't happen if everything is instantly fair game for anyone to scoop up. We're heading straight for a world where everything is derivative junk. Faster than usual, as some would argue.

Think the market value is calculated based on how many coins there are multiplied by the highest amount anyone is offering to pay for them at the time. Because the intrinsic value is zero, a spike in supply can dramatically flood the market.

I stopped going to theatres because they waste 30-40 min of my time with commercials and I can't plan my time, not knowing when the movie ends. But theatres are quite welcome to show as many trailers as they want after the credits. They could even rename them to Trailing Trailers.

The extra bias of the sort of people who would fill out a survey too.

Sell it as overall cost saving/efficiency gain of not running the current cumbersome system. Remind people that we have a progressive tax system, so the change would largely be funded by the richer demographic. I've been thinking about the logistics of the proposal and it gets funky. TV license is about 175gbp, over 200usd a year. Would that double netflix cost? What if I also have apple TV? YouTube premium? Amazon? Would the system tripple-dip into the pockets of people least likely to use what they pay for?